Hello, I'm

Wonsuk Kim

CTO at SAFE AI | AI Researcher | Engineer

Building AI that is safe, interpretable, and human-centered.

About

Wonsuk Kim

I'm a researcher and engineer working at the intersection of AI safety, computer vision, and privacy-preserving machine learning. Currently CTO at SAFE AI, I've spent over a decade building systems — from food delivery backends to nanophotonic inverse design models — and I believe the next decade should be defined by AI we can actually trust.

Location

Seoul, South Korea

Degree

Ph.D. & B.S. Electrical Engineering, Korea University

Instagram

@won425

Experience

2023
2023.09 — Present

CTO

SAFE AI, Seoul

Led Vision AI research and built AI safety research team

2022
2022.12 — 2023.03

Research Lead

Entre-reality, Seoul

3D pose estimation research; motion sync between users and avatars

2021.12 — 2022.12

Software Researcher

Desilo, Seoul

Privacy-enhancing tech: homomorphic encryption & multi-party computation

2021
2021.01 — 2021.02

Research Intern

Samsung Electronics

Deep learning model development using MaxwellFDFD

2019
2019.11 — 2020.09

Visiting PhD Student

Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

Collaborative ECG model training via multi-party computation

2017
2017.09 — 2019.08

Campus Ambassador

JetBrains, Prague

Promoted JetBrains tools (PyCharm, IntelliJ) at Korea University

2017.01 — 2017.05

Software Engineer

Kakao Corp.

Back-end API for payment service & PG server

2015
2015.03 — 2016.02

Software Engineer

Woowa Bros. (Baemin)

Back-end API for food delivery app & PG server

2014
2014.03 — 2015.03

Software Engineer

SureM Co.

SMPP server & real-time Android messaging service

2012
2012.12 — 2014.02

Software Engineer

Autobrain

CRM web app for imported car dealers

Research & Publications

International

K-Fold Ensemble of Hiera and VideoMAE for Illegal Waste Dumping Detection

Kim, SR., Ryu, D., Hwang, D., Byeon, S., Lee, M., Kim, W.

WACV 2026 Workshop 2026 Cited: 1

Robust Object Detection for Long-term Thermal Surveillance via Explicit Background Modeling

Son, J., Cha, J., Park, J., Kim, S., Kim, S., Kim, Y., Kim, W.

WACV 2026 Workshop 2026 Cited: 1

A Multi-Stage Deep Learning Approach Incorporating Text-Image and Image-Image Comparisons for Cheapfake Detection

Seo, J., Hwang, HS., Lee, J., Lee, M., Kim, W., Seok, J.

ICMR 2024, ACM 2024 Cited: 3

Inverse design of nanophotonic devices using generative adversarial networks

Kim, W., Kim, S., Lee, M., & Seok, J.

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2022 Cited: 32

Privacy-preserving collaborative machine learning in biomedical applications

Kim, W., & Seok, J.

ICAIIC 2022, IEEE 2022 Cited: 27

Simulation acceleration for transmittance of electromagnetic waves in 2D slit arrays using deep learning

Kim, W., & Seok, J.

Scientific Reports 2020 Cited: 19

Indoor Semantic Segmentation for Robot Navigating on Mobile

Kim, W., & Seok, J.

ICUFN 2018, IEEE 2018 Cited: 64

Domestic

Robust Out-of-Stock Detection by Localizing Products with Open-Vocabulary Models

Choi, R., Son, J., Kim, W.

한국차세대컴퓨팅학회 2025

Siamese Network Based Contrastive Learning for Sealant Defect Detection

Park, J., Kim, S., Kim, S., Cha, J., Kim, W., Kim, Y.

한국차세대컴퓨팅학회 2025

Super Resolution을 이용한 MaxwellFDFD 소자 모듈 특성 예측

서장원, 김유중, 김원석, 김인수, 석준희

한국통신학회 학술대회논문집 2020

Patent

Inverse design system designing nano-optical device using controllable generative adversarial network

Hong, J., Seok, J., Kim, W., Lee, K.I.

US Patent App. 17/973,188 2023

Seminars

2026

From Talking AI to Working Agents

Korea Univ. FMBA · 2026.03

2025

No-Code Tools & AI Development

Hanyang Univ. · 2025.10

AI Transforming Finance

Korea Univ. FMBA · 2025.03

Jira Best Practices

Samsung C&T · 2025

2023

How to Talk with Developers

SpartaCoding · 2023.05

Projects

Education

2023
2017 — 2023

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (CS)

Korea University

Advisor: Prof. Junhee Seok

2017
2009 — 2017

B.S. Electrical Engineering

Korea University

2009
2006 — 2009

High School Diploma

Kyunggi High School

Contact

Feel free to reach out for collaborations or just a friendly hello.